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Summer of Love: Hippies


Directions: Use the following questions and resources to learn more about your individual. Take careful notes; you may not simply cut and paste from the Internet into your notes. Keep careful track of your sources for your Works Cited. Based on your research, you will create a profile of your individual to share with the class. This profile should provide basic background information on your individual and provide an overview of his/her stance on our main questions: where is the U.S. headed from here? what are the primary issues/concerns facing our nation? how would deal with these issues and concerns?

Guiding Questions
  • Who were the Hippies?
  • Where were they located?
  • How would you characterize their backgrounds?
  • What impact did music have on the development of the hippie movement?
  • What is the counterculture and what role did San Francisco and specifically Haight-Ashbury have on the development of counter culture?
  • What role did drugs play in the development of the counter culture?
  • What impact did the counter culture have on American society in the 1960s?
  • How would a hippie answer the question: where do we go from here as a nation? You'll need to work on this!

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